10. How the world ends.
One year I read everything about epidemics and plagues (The Coming Plague is a guilty beach read.) I still cant stop thinking about The World Without Us and even though it terrifies me I watch the Walking Dead as it airs.
Doesn’t matter whether its Zombies in TriBeCa, the decline of civilization because of the dependance on oil as detailed in James Kunstler’s The Long Emergency, or taxing the environment as explored in Collapse, I find thinking about the various scenarios strangely inspiring. Sitting on the beach last week I spent a day trying to figure out how we would live in our fifth floor walk up without heat and power should we have another Snowmageddon this year in New York. That night David and I hypothesized about what setting we would most likely be able to survive in should we see the decline of civilization.
This sounds morbid but actually I don’t find it so. Over dinner a couple of nights ago I was talking to some friends about why it is as designers that we find glittery visions of the future inspiring to creation (the star-trek to flip phone scenario) but find it far more difficult to find inspiration from the possibility of crisis. The question for us was whether the future after major catastrophe may be just too hard for us to picture to begin to design for. So right now I just do it on the beach in my off hours.
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